Apache Camel CXF SOAP Operation Injection via Header Manipulation

Improper Input Validation, Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') vulnerability in Apache Camel CXF SOAP component. The camel-cxf producer selects which SOAP operation to invoke on the backend service from the operationName (and operationNamespace) Exchange header, whose constant values (CxfConstants.OPERATION_NAME / OPERATION_NAMESPACE) were the plain strings operationName / operationNamespace. Because these names do not start with the Camel / camel prefix, HttpHeaderFilterStrategy - which blocks only the Camel header namespace on the HTTP boundary - let them pass from an inbound HTTP request straight into the Exchange. In a route that bridges an HTTP consumer (for example platform-http) into a cxf: producer, any HTTP client could therefore set the operationName header and have CxfProducer resolve and invoke a different WSDL operation than the route intended - for example replacing a read operation with a destructive one - against the backend SOAP service (a confused-de

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Analysis

CVE-2026-46592 is a Confused Deputy vulnerability in Apache Camel's CXF SOAP component that allows attackers to manipulate which backend SOAP operations get invoked through improperly validated HTTP headers. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation (CWE-20) on the operationName and operationNamespace Exchange headers, which use non-prefixed constant names that HttpHeaderFilterStrategy fails to properly sanitize. This affects any organization using Apache Camel with CXF SOAP components to integrate with backend services, potentially allowing attackers to invoke unintended operations, access sensitive data, or trigger unauthorized transactions on those services.

Casky's 392 mapped security skills leverage Claude AI's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns across MITRE ATT&CK's initial access (TA0001), discovery (TA0043), and execution (TA0006) tactics. Practitioners using Casky would identify suspicious findings including: header injection attempts in proxy logs where operationName or operationNamespace values deviate from expected whitelist patterns, anomalous SOAP operation calls from legitimate clients that don't match normal usage baselines, and HTTP requests containing crafted header values designed to bypass the CXF component's operation selection logic. The platform's skill set would correlate these indicators with known Confused Deputy exploitation techniques, helping teams distinguish malicious header manipulation from legitimate Camel routing decisions and prioritize remediation of affected CXF producer instances.

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